147. Client Spotlight: Stage 4 Cancer to 50 lb Fat Loss and Inspiration to all with Kris Shook
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Did you experience a near death experience or illness? What was the most difficult part of the process for you?
Kris Shook is a family man and a business owner and has always been into health,fitness, and competitive sports.
Between 2011 to 2012, he saw one of my series on bodybuilding.com, and was instantly inspired to compete as a bodybuilder.
Whilst preparing for the competition some time in early 2012, he noticed something different in his physique that was not right. He then consulted their family doctor as he felt that his lymph nodes were swollen.
He had undergone laboratory work -- all the results are normal. He actually felt good with no symptoms at all and just went back to his normal life.
However, the swelling did not subside until he decided to have another consultation, and this time, he was referred to a specialist right away.
That moment he knew that there was really something wrong.
He felt utterly hopeless when he realized that all his hard work in preparing for the competition would go to waste.
But then, just when things couldn't get any worse, he received some terrible news. He had been diagnosed with incurable follicular lymphoma - Stage 4.
As still being human, there were moments he experienced depression. Though it was difficult, he managed to stay positive throughout this ordeal. He would eliminate any negative thoughts from his mind, and instead visualize himself competing again and enjoying every moment of it.
He had undergone surgeries and chemotherapies all throughout his journey. He gained weight but managed to get back on track cautiously. And because he discovered biohacking, which was his life saver, he managed to regain his body, strength, and mental health.
Check out this episode with Kris Shook as he shares his amazing journey on how he fought his life-threatening disease and how he regained his self through having a positive attitude, and mindset in life, and how he became an inspiration to all who have been who's also been struggling, and creating his purpose in life.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Chris Gethyn and I've been voted the world's number one trainer on platforms such as |
| 0:07.6 | bodybuilding.com, the governing body PT Academy. I am the co-founder of caged supplements. I am the co-founder |
| 0:16.6 | of the Chris Gethin Jim's franchise and I'm the co-founder on my online coaching platform. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm also a hybrid athlete, a pro natural bodybuilder, competed in many different events, |
| 0:29.9 | such as Iron Man Triathlon, Ultramarathon, and what I aim to bring to you with this podcast is inspiration, motivation from clients, testimonials, biohacking, anti-aging, everything that will allow you to evolve as a human being. |
| 0:49.8 | Hello, everybody. This is Chris Gethyn and welcome to another episode of the Chris Gethyn podcast. |
| 0:56.8 | Today is going to be a very special episode. My client on the other end here, if you're watching |
| 1:02.9 | this on YouTube, you can see Chris on the other end, has overcome some amazing challenges that |
| 1:10.7 | I can only explain as being very inspiring, absolutely |
| 1:14.4 | inspiring, not just me, but all of you listeners and viewers watching this right now. |
| 1:21.1 | So Chris Shook has been a client for a while, followed my programs for a while, but he came |
| 1:26.5 | up against some challenges whilst getting |
| 1:29.3 | ready for a bodybuilding show. But I'm not going to go into too much detail about that now, |
| 1:33.7 | because I wanted to come from Chris's mouth to explain where he was, you know, what sort of shape |
| 1:39.8 | that he got out of, and what did he do to actually lose over 50 pounds to see like the ball of health |
| 1:47.5 | that I can see right now on the other end of the screen here. So Chris, thank you very much |
| 1:53.0 | for coming on to the show, sir. Yeah, thank you for having me. Appreciate it. So tell us a little bit |
| 1:58.2 | about your background. So people have a little bit of an understanding of what you were doing specifically, you know, as you got some pretty bad news that kind of shook your will. But if anything, it gave you the tipping point to really make a complete 360 in your life. |
| 2:14.5 | Absolutely. So I'll go back just really far back. So I grew up in the days of Arnold |
| 2:19.3 | Schwarzenegger and Loufriigno and that kind of stuff. So at a very young age, maybe sixth grade, |
| 2:24.4 | watching Conan O'Brien really turned me on to, you know, seeing, you know, Arnold and learning more |
| 2:29.6 | and, you know, and getting into the health and fitness and always being competitive in sports, |
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